Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 8.24 Fish Canneries

No person shall clean or dress fish for commercial purposes except within a zone authorizing such use.

(Prior code § 5550.12)

No person shall conduct or operate any fish cannery within the City without first applying for and receiving a fish cannery permit from the Health Officer.

(Prior code § 5550.14)

Every applicant for a fish cannery permit shall file with the Health Officer a written application therefor. The application shall state the name and address of the applicant and, if the applicant is not a permanent resident of the City, the name and address of the agent of the applicant residing in the City and having the management of the cannery. The application shall also contain a description of the property, by street and number, where it is proposed to conduct or operate, or cause to be conducted or operated, the fish cannery, and if the location thereof has no street number, then the description as will enable the same to be easily found.

(Prior code § 5550.15)

If, after investigating and considering such application, it appears to the Health Officer that the statements made therein are true, that the existing sanitary conditions in such place comply with the provisions of the laws and ordinances in force at the time of the application, and conform to the rules and regulations of the Health Department regulating the sanitary conditions of such places, the Health Officer shall grant the permit applied for; provided, however, that the permit shall be granted only upon the express condition that it shall be subject to suspension, for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days, by the Health Officer in his discretion and upon proof to his satisfaction of the violation by the holder of the fish cannery permit, his employee, servant, agent or any person acting with his consent or under his control, of any provision of any law of the State, or of any ordinance of the City or of any rule of the Health Department regulating fish canneries; and provided further, that no fish cannery permit shall be suspended without a hearing before the Health Officer in the matter of the suspension permit, and notice of the hearing shall be given, in writing, and served upon the holder of the fish cannery permit, his manager or agent, at least five (5) days prior to the date of the hearing, and the notice shall state the ground of complaint against the holder of the fish cannery permit, and shall state the time and place when and where the hearing will be had. The notice shall be served by delivering a copy thereof to the holder of the fish cannery permit or to his manager or agent, or to any person in charge of or employed at his fish cannery, or by leaving the notice at the place of business or place of residence of any such persons with some person over the age of eighteen (18) years; or if the holder of the permit cannot be found and personal service of the notice cannot be made upon him, or upon his manager, agent or person in charge of or employed in the fish cannery, or with some person over eighteen (18) years of age at his place of business or place of residence, then a copy of the notice shall be posted upon the cannery and a copy mailed, postage fully prepaid, addressed to the holder of the fish cannery permit at his last place of business, at least five (5) days prior to the date of the hearing.

(Prior code § 5550.16)

No person conducting or carrying on any fish cannery in the City shall receive in such fish cannery, or upon the premises surrounding the same, any decomposed, tainted, corrupted, diseased or unwholesome fish, or any fish from which the head has been removed, or any fish from which all viscera, that is, all of the contents of the abdominal cavity, have not been previously removed; or shall have, keep or store in their cannery, or their property surrounding the same, any canned or cooked fish which, for any reason, is unsafe or unfit for human food; provided, however, that this provision shall not apply to the necessary accumulation of inedible product resulting from the ordinary methods of food preparation.

(Prior code § 5550.17)

No person managing, conducting or carrying on any fish cannery in the City shall dump or place any fish offal, oil or residue from the cooking of soup in the Long Beach harbor.

(Prior code § 5550.18)

Every person managing, conducting or carrying on any fish cannery in the City shall provide such fish cannery with metal receptacles sufficient for keeping refuse and offal produced in such cannery; shall keep such receptacles in a sanitary condition; shall not use such receptacles for any edible product; and shall not permit refuse and offal to accumulate in or about the canneries but shall remove or otherwise dispose of the same before any putrefaction commences.

(Prior code § 5550.19)

No person shall smoke or use tobacco in any form in any fish cannery operating within the City.

(Prior code § 5550.20)

Every person conducting or carrying on any fish cannery in the City shall provide the fish cannery with convenient and adequate toilet and lavatory facilities and all employees therein shall keep themselves clean.

(Prior code § 5550.21)

Every place or building used as a fish cannery in the City shall be of good and strong workmanship, shall be provided with adequate means to exclude flies and rodents therefrom, and all utensils, receptacles and other appliances and appurtenances shall be kept clean and in a safe and sanitary condition.

(Prior code § 5550.22)

The Health Officer, his deputy or other officer delegated by him, is empowered to enter any fish cannery located within the City at any time for the purpose of inspection and to enforce any of the provisions of this Chapter, or of any law, rule or regulation governing such places in the City.

(Prior code § 5550.23)

Any fish received, kept or stored in any fish cannery or on the premises surrounding the same, within the City, or at any other place in the City, in violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter, or of any law, rule or regulation governing fish canneries in the City at the time, shall be condemned, and the Health Officer, his deputy or other officer delegated by him, shall mark or mutilate such fish so condemned and make the fact of such condemnation apparent and shall immediately, in writing, order the person in charge of the cannery, or in the possession of the fish, to remove the same from the premises within such time as may be fixed in the order, and every such person so ordered to remove condemned fish shall immediately after the removal of the same make a report in writing to the Health Officer stating the time and manner of the removal and disposal of the condemned fish. Copies of all condemnations and reports of removal shall be filed in the office of the Health Officer.

(Prior code § 5550.24)